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Saikrishna Gorantla

Technical Lead - DevOps
Hyderabad
Saikrishna Gorantla

Summary

Certified Kubernetes Engineer with 9+ years of IT industry experience as a DevOps Engineer, compromising of DevOps, Build Engineering and Release Management process, including end-to-end code configuration, building binaries & deployments of artifacts and entire life cycle model in Enterprise Applications. Good understanding of SDLC with expertise on software Build/Release, Configuration management

Overview

10
years of professional experience
4
years of post-secondary education
5
Certifications

Work History

SNP Cloud Technologies Private Limited, Hyderabad

Lead DevOps Engineer
2023.01 - Current (1 year & 8 months)

Job overview

• Designed cloud solution architectures hosting Kubernetes workloads for enterprise application deployments following high availability and disaster recovery principles across different regions

• Developed Terraform modules for Azure Cloud resources categorized under IAAS, PAAS platforms including networking, identity and security

• Built terraform deployment pipelines with multi-stage, multi-environment across multiple subscriptions referencing the modules developed through Azure DevOps and GitHub actions

• Trained the team on implementing best practices to be followed for deploying applications into Kubernetes clusters following 4C’s of cloud native security approach

• Designed pipeline workflow templates for enterprise standards which will be used as reference for deploying applications into Kubernetes clusters

• Designed migration strategy and process for Kubernetes workloads from GCP to Azure

• Performed remediation on application container images for vulnerabilities using Defender for Cloud, Anchore and Snyk tools

• Configured TLS certificates for applications deployed on Kubernetes clusters using cert-manager and Let's Encrypt

• Developed Kubernetes-based backup and disaster recovery solution and ensuring business continuity using Kube-backup, Velero, CommVault

• Kubernetes FinOps management using Kubecost and Azure Cloud Integration

• Designed Policy as Code solution using Kyverno

• Good understanding of webhook process flow and debugging them in Kubernetes cluster

SNP Technologies, Hyderabad

Senior DevOps Engineer
2019.12 - 2022.12 (3 years)

Job overview

• Configured QoS classes (Guaranteed, Burstable and Best Effort) for application pod definition

• Involved in designing Kubernetes hosting architecture

• Packaged applications deployments into Kubernetes through HELM charts

• Created deployment templates for application deployments using Azure DevOps build and release pipelines integrated with Task groups for all PAAS services on Azure

• Configured routing patterns in Istio service mesh for multiple application versions

• Proof of Concept implementation of East-West Gateway in Istio for multi-region kubernetes cluster architectures

• Hands-on experience on creating GitHub workflow templates for application code deployment using GitHub actions

• Implemented DevSecOps pipelines for container vulnerability deployments in CI/CD pipelines

• Built ARM and terraform templates for azure resource deployments through Azure DevOps pipelines

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, Mumbai

DevOps Engineer
2018.05 - 2019.12 (1 year & 7 months)

Job overview

• Plan, deploy, monitor, and maintain OpenStack cloud infrastructure consisting of multiple virtual instances

• Implemented rapid-provisioning and life-cycle management for all Linux and windows flavor instances using Ansible, and custom Bash scripts. In addition, developing and supporting day to day release builds and deployments, improving existing infrastructure and services with upgrades

• Dockerized entire JioCloud application by creating respective Docker images and their respective docker les and migration of AWS, Non-Prod DEV and SIT environments to Kubernetes

• Implemented docker-maven-plugin in maven pom to build docker images for all microservices

• Orchestrated Kubernetes cluster on OpenStack cloud Virtual machines using Terraform and Kubespray

• Configured build jobs and pipelines using Jenkins. Troubleshooted problems arising from Build failures within Kubernetes Infrastructure

• Provided L2/L3 support for JioCloud application in Deployment and troubleshooting issues raised in DEV, SIT, Load Test, Pre-Production and Production environments

• Generated Kubeconfig files to all development team members and provided respective access to them across all the environments by using RBAC rules, across multiple clusters

Wesnia Info Solutions private limited, Banglore

Build and Release Engineer
2013.10 - 2018.05 (4 years & 7 months)

Job overview

• Addressing software configuration management issues in coordination with development team

• Implementation of code builds and automated deployment procedures, build and release dependencies issues resolution in collaboration with other departments

• Outline build and deployment procedures in consultation with developers, examined and executed application-specific deploy processes

• Build and release management As-built documents for each project Configuration of branch policies and branching strategy

Build artifact management in Nexus

Education

Gudlavalleru Engineering College , Gudlavalleru

Bachelor of Technology from Mechanical Engineering
2009.09 - 2013.05 (3 years & 8 months)

Skills

    Microsoft Azure

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Certification

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Timeline

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

2023-06

Lead DevOps Engineer

SNP Cloud Technologies Private Limited
2023.01 - Current (1 year & 8 months)

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

2022-06

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

2021-04

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

2020-04

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

2020-01

Senior DevOps Engineer

SNP Technologies
2019.12 - 2022.12 (3 years)

DevOps Engineer

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited
2018.05 - 2019.12 (1 year & 7 months)

Build and Release Engineer

Wesnia Info Solutions private limited
2013.10 - 2018.05 (4 years & 7 months)

Gudlavalleru Engineering College

Bachelor of Technology from Mechanical Engineering
2009.09 - 2013.05 (3 years & 8 months)
Saikrishna GorantlaTechnical Lead - DevOps